by end of 2019

Atlantic Sapphire, the Norwegian salmon farming company behind the planned 90,000 metric ton megafarm outside of Miami, US, has said that the first phase of the farm's construction "is going to be 90% complete by the end of the year".

Speaking at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum in Bergen, Atlantic Sapphire CEO Johan Andreasson stated that the company planned to release six batches of half a million salmon eggs into the farm over the course of the year, with a planned biomass of 1,000t in place by the end of 2019.

"In the US, our objectives for the rest of the year are to complete the ten remaining RAS [recirculating aquaculture systems] ahead of.........................................................